Combined badge and pencil holder



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J. J. PHARB. COMBINED BADGE AND PENGIL HOLDER.

No. 469,529. Patented Feb. 23, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN JAY PI-IARE, OE INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO H. R. MILLS AND ARTHUR H. MILLS, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED BADGE AND PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.469,529, dated February 23, 1892.

Application filed December 18, 1891. Serial No. 415,4:73. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN JAY PHARE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Independence, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Badge and Pencil-IIolder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a combined badge and pencil-holder, its object being to provide a salable and popular article for attachment to the clothing and which can be readily applied and removed without injury thereto, it being especially intended for use during political campaigns.

My invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts to be hereinafter described, and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of my device, showing it applied to a pocket. Fig. 2 is a rear view of my device. Fig. 3 is a section on line III III, Fig. 1. Fig. 4.- is an under side view of the device. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the device before it is bent.

The reference letter a indicates a plate which constitutes a badge and which may be in the shape of a shield, or it may be of any other preferred ornamental design, shape, or configuration.

5 indicates another plate, preferably of the shape shown, the same being connected to the plate ct by means of one or more necks 0. These parts are preferably formed out of sheet metal in one piece. Struck up from the plate I) and extending longitudinally thereof is a spring-tongue cl, suitably bent so as to grasp a pencil inserted between it and the plate I). In thus forming the tongue d a slot or opening 6 is formed in the plate 1). plate 0 and tongue (Z constitute a pencilholder.

Prongs or prodsfg are punched out of the plates at and b, respectively, and they project toward the connecting-neck 0.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 3, it will be observed that in applying the device it is bent over the front of the mouth of the pocket h, so that the badge will be outside the pocket and the pencil-holder will be inside thereof, the neck 0 passing over said part of the mouth The and the prongs fg being brought into engagement with the material of which the pocket is formed, whereby the device is securely held in position.

The-device may be applied either to a vest or coat pocket, or it may be used in a coat button-hole, and, in fact, it may be applied to any suitable aperture in the clothing, whether specially provided or not.

Instead of the plate a constit-utingabadge, it may constitute a badge-base, as is clearly evident, to which a badge may be secured, and as the continued use of the device is contemplated after the same has served for a campaign or other badge base my invention is intended to broadly cover the same, however adapted for use. In Fig. 1 I have shown photographs m of the candidates applied to the plate a.

It is evident that slight changes may be resorted to by skilled mechanics without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined badge and pencil holder constructed substantially as shown and described.

2. A combined badge and pencil-holder consisting of two plates connected by a neck or necks and adapted to be applied to an aperture in the clothing, substantially as set forth.

3. A combined badge and pencil holder comprising two plates connected by a neck or nedks, one of which plates is provided with a spring-tongue, substantially as set forth.

4. A combined badge and pencil holder comprising two plates connected by a neck or necks and provided with prongs and a tongue projecting from one of the plates, substantially as set forth.

5. A combined badge and pencil holder comprising two connected plates formed from sheet metahadapted to be bent into proper shape for application to the clothing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J OIIN JAY PHARE. \Vitnesses:

KERNA L. PHAEE, A. II. MILLs. 

